Cortay Surname
Approximately 188 people bear this surname
Cortay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 169 | 1:393,034 | 57,995 |
| Turkey | 14 | 1:5,558,673 | 112,907 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Çortay (2) are calculated separately.
Cortay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cortay Come From? nationality or country of origin
Cortay occurs in France more than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Çortay. For other possible spellings of Cortay click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Cortay? popularity and diffusion
Cortay is the 1,235,409th most frequently held surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 38,763,542 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 90 percent of Cortay live; 90 percent live in Western Europe and 90 percent live in Gallo-Europe.
This surname is most frequently held in France, where it is carried by 169 people, or 1 in 393,034. In France Cortay is primarily concentrated in: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 82 percent live, Île-de-France, where 9 percent live and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, where 5 percent live. Aside from France it occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Turkey, where 7 percent live and The United States, where 2 percent live.
Cortay Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Cortay has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Cortay surname expanded 400 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Cortay
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